The Archway\u2019s<\/a> latest report, intimate partner homicides nearly doubled in Tarrant County from 2023 to 2024.<\/p>\n\u201cWe are talking about the difference between, you know, six and 11 or seven and 11,\u201d Jacob said.<\/p>\n
While the numbers are not as high as those seen during the pandemic, Jacob said any increase is disappointing. The goal, she added, is zero fatalities.<\/p>\n
In Dallas County, a review by Genesis Women\u2019s Shelter reported 88 adjudicated domestic violence fatalities from 2014 to 2018, up from 76 in the previous five-year period. That count includes only cases that went through the legal system and may not reflect the full number of deaths.<\/p>\n
Jacob said early research points to a possible cultural shift contributing to the rise.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t know quite what the cause was behind this increase or what might have been a catalyst for that, but we do know that early research has indicated that there is… a general attitude throughout the United States that has become more accepting of violence as an approach to a problem,\u201d she said. \u201cI think we\u2019ve seen that, sadly, in political violence on both sides of the aisle.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cJust the idea that violence can solve a problem is really concerning to me, and I think to many others who work within violent crime,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Still, Jacob said collaboration in the region offers hope. In Tarrant County, a coalition that includes police, prosecutors and health systems is working to address the issue.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur partners at Alliance for Children are working on this issue on the child abuse side. We have partners with JPS and THR,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Jacob also emphasized the importance of working across county lines.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn DFW, it\u2019s really important that an agency like The Archway is working in partnership with The Family Place, with Genesis, with Mosaic, with Parker County folks, with Collin County folks,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is… an area where folks are transient. They might own a home in Dallas County, and then they move up to Collin County, and maybe they buy some land and they move out to Parker County, right?\u201d<\/p>\n
If you or someone you know is experiencing violence in a relationship, call The Archway\u2019s 24\/7 crisis hotline at 1-877-701-7233 or the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Law enforcement agencies across North Texas are investigating a series of domestic violence-related homicides, part of what advocacy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,430],"class_list":{"0":"post-16810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-fort-worth","9":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","10":"tag-fort-worth-news","11":"tag-north-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}